Job requirements
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Essential
8 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Substantial post registration experience.
- Qualifications
First level registered nurse
- Statutory Registration
RN Level 1
- Special Skills & Knowledge
Good interpersonal skills and communication skills.
- Special Skills & Knowledge
Clinical competence.
- Special Skills & Knowledge
Ability to liaise effectively with senior medical and nursing staff, managers and all grades of health care workers.
- Special Skills & Knowledge
To be able to make informed clinical choices and formulate a plan of care delivery.
- Special Skills & Knowledge
Computer skills.
Desirable
12 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Experience of writing educational programmes
- Experience
Experience of presenting
- Experience
Experience of RCA
- Experience
Experience in managing own work load
- Qualifications
Experience in wound care
- Qualifications
Degree level education.
- Qualifications
A recognised teaching qualification, i.e. 730/998 or equivalent.
- Qualifications
Qualification in wound care or working towards.
- Special Skills & Knowledge
Demonstrable knowledge of research process.
- Special Skills & Knowledge
Be able to critically analyse research papers.
- Special Skills & Knowledge
Project management experience.
- Special Skills & Knowledge
Demonstrate competent computer proficiency (Microsoft Applications).
Job overview
Excellent development opportunity!
Here at the Gloucestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, we want to deliver truly brilliant, integrated care. We are ambitious about what we do and are continually striving to improve patients' experience and outcomes.
If like us you strive for these ambitions then we would love you to consider a role in our innovative, dynamic and highly functioning tissue viability team.
The proposed interview date is: 8th October
Main duties of the job
A registered nurse with substantial years clinical experience AFC 5 or above you will be able to participate in the delivery of a specialist tissue viability trust wide nursing service.
You will help to manage a clinical case load providing clinical advice and support relating to tissue viability.
You will formulate and participate in formal and informal education.
Plan, undertake and analyse relevant audit activities.
You will be able to support the Lead Nurse for Tissue Viability in the day to day running of the Trust wide service.
You will be able to work closely with the multidisciplinary team and also work autonomously, exercising clinical expertise in tissue viability.
You must possess knowledge and skills in clinical risk evaluation, pressure ulcer prevention strategies and ideally change management.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As a band 6 Tissue Viability Nurse you will be responsible for the delivery of a high standard of care as part of the Tissue Viability Team, in support of and under the supervision of the lead nurse in the team.
You will have a passion for tissue viability and we will help you develop your knowledge in the planning and evaluation of wound care. You will be supported in the planning, delivering and evaluation of education around tissue viability.
Although you will at all times act as directed by the lead nurse in the Tissue Viability Team, you will be competent to work without direct supervision, and will undertake a range of delegated duties within a frame work that has been agreed by the lead nurse.
You will communicate effectively at all times in conjunction with other team members, which will involve recording information, contributing to and maintaining high standards of care in tissue viability and pressure ulcer prevention.
For additional information please read the job description.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Tissue Viability Nurse, Band 6 with Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Gloucester, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Nurse (adult and children) role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 (pa, pro rata if part-time). The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 16 Sep 2026.
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